A 27-year-old custodian was sucked into a large machine used to skin animals
at a Danish slaughterhouse.
The 27-year-old was cleaning the machines at the Danish Crown Slaughterhouse
in Sæby when he was caught by one of the rollers and mowed into the
so-called deskinning machine. According to the paper Extra Bladet, he was
pulled through the massive machines a couple of times before a colleague
heard the noise and managed to turn off the machines.
He was serious injured, and he was immediately taken to the hospital in
Aalborg.
“It’s not life threatening, but he has been seriously injured,” said Otto
Jystrup at the Directorate of Labor Inspection in Aalborg. “There are a lot
to patch together.”
“The machine resembles a carwash, where brushes moves back and forth over
the surface while rotating, but there the brushes consists of small metal
plates which scrape off the bristle of the pigs,” Jystrup said.
The 27-year-old, who is of Afghani descent, has an open cranium fracture,
pelvis fracture, and several bone fractures, in addition to many large
wounds.
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